Education, marriage, and religion are essentially creative, yet all three have been vitiated by the intrusion of possessive motives. ... The creative impulses in different men are essentially harmonious, since what one man creates cannot be a hindrance to what another is wishing to create. It is the possessive impulses that involve conflict. ... Education and social institutions ought to be made such as to strengthen the impulses which harmonize in different men, and to weaken those that involve conflict.
Source: Bertrand Russell : Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1916, chapter 8: What we can do.
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This represents Russell's fundamental way of thinking. Human desires include those that can be privately owned but not shared, and those that can be shared. He argues that, as far as possible, we should restrain possessive impulses and cultivate shareable impulses as a way of life. One of Russell's most frequently quoted remarks expressing this idea reads as follows:
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”
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Source: Bertrand Russell : Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1916, chapter 8: What we can do.
a brief comment:
This represents Russell's fundamental way of thinking. Human desires include those that can be privately owned but not shared, and those that can be shared. He argues that, as far as possible, we should restrain possessive impulses and cultivate shareable impulses as a way of life. One of Russell's most frequently quoted remarks expressing this idea reads as follows:
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”
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